Saturday, March 28, 2020
Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul (Official Audio)
Only Bob Dylan could release a song that was seventeen minutes long and consisted of only three chords and you still listen to the whole song because it is so compelling. Only Bob Dylan could do THAT.
Most of you are too young to remember, but I was six years old when President Kennedy was killed. They sent us home from school at lunch. We didn't realize it at the time, but that was when America stopped being a representative democracy and started being a Police State run by corporate money. Vietnam, marijuana, President Nixon, Student Loans, and a thousand other devious half truths slowly eroded what was once a great and free country into a corporate welfare state. Nobody is free anymore. We have all been had. All we can do now is remember. Just remember. R.I.P.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
One More Photo
Left to Right
1. With all the Saints, Amen
2. In the Beginning
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William Schaeffer
Good Luck
Left to Right
1. For the Heart
2. The Lover
3. The Prophet Motive
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William Schaeffer
Saturday, March 21, 2020
The Educational System
In fact the education system is actually designed to bring all students to the same performance level so they can be "interchangeable workers" for industry. Remedial students are given extra resources and one-on-one instruction to "bring them up" to the average level. Advanced students are put in a room and told to educate themselves. They are already performing above average and do not need extra encouragement or "progress." If you perform well in the educational system, you have been conned and duped. You have been taken advantage of. You will only perform as "average" at best in adult society because that was the plan all along. School wasn't designed to help you be your best. School was designed so you can be most usefully exploited.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Herd Immunity
It seems to me that the strategy of fighting a pandemic by doing nothing and letting "herd immunity" protect the population is like: Fighting a war and letting the enemy shoot whomever he likes. Eventually the enemy will run out of bullets and then you will have "won the war."
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Capitalism is anti human
Unfortunately Capitalism is anti human. The most economically efficient social organization provides the least protection and safety for the average citizen. The most robust, and healthy social organization is NOT economically efficient. The goals of capitalism are opposite of the goals of humanity. Capitalism is anti human.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
youtube poem
Walk like a duck.
Swim like a frog.
Fly like a bat, and
Sleep like a dog.
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William Schaeffer
Swim like a frog.
Fly like a bat, and
Sleep like a dog.
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William Schaeffer
Homeless Market Dynamics
Maria Cristina You are ignorant. 50% of all the jobs in America are minimum wage jobs. This fact alone guarantees that a significant percentage of the population will not find adequate work and this fact is planned. Additionally -- After 25 years working in VFX my career was outsourced to India and China. My entire career no longer exists in the USA. The same thing happened to data base programmers and customer assistance workers. We were all working faithfully and diligently and the Capitalist organizations we worked for just threw our lives in the garbage with no warning at all. It is hateful, uncaring, and non empathetic people like you that are fueling the revolution that will bulldose the gated communities and establish justice in America. just wait...
The homelessness we see in Los Angeles is not an accident. It is a planned and known result of capitalist market dynamics. In a free market, it is always necessary to throw a significant number of people's lives in the garbage. It is always necessary to have miserable, homeless people, to motivate the oppressed people to work more diligently. There is no escape. This is statistical mathematics at work
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William Schaeffer
The homelessness we see in Los Angeles is not an accident. It is a planned and known result of capitalist market dynamics. In a free market, it is always necessary to throw a significant number of people's lives in the garbage. It is always necessary to have miserable, homeless people, to motivate the oppressed people to work more diligently. There is no escape. This is statistical mathematics at work
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William Schaeffer
Politics as usual?
When the USA was founded, there were two political parties: The Whigs, and the Federalists. Between 1830 and 1850, those political parties political platforms became "irrelevant" and two new parties were formed: The Democrats and The Republicans. it might be time for the USA to scrap the Democrats and the Republicans and find a new political party that actually represents the will of the people.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Universal Basic Income
Without a "Universal Basic Income," a capitalist economy guarantees that a small percentage of the population will live and die in the streets. They will not find work and they will not survive.
This guaranteed failure rate of humiliation and despair, is what capitalist economies use to motivate the rest of us to continue to work (so we can avoid a similar fate).
How moral, just, or fair, is ANY social system that plans on the fact that a small percentage of the population has to have a miserable, short life of despair, just to guarantee that the rest of us work and the very rich can continue to enjoy a pleasant lifestyle.
Can you imagine polite conversation with comfortable people humorously chatting about trivial matters while a person lays dying, and gasping for air, on the floor beside the table? Someone is dying and the party just continues as usual. Nobody even notices. That is what is happening in America. That is what is happening in Los Angeles.
While the wealthy elite celebrate their success in their Hollywood Hills mansions, their compatriots are sleeping in the rain and dying on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
Presently, there are 60,000 people living on the streets of Los Angeles. Nobody cares about these people. Nobody helps them. They are already dead and nobody cares. This IS America. This IS the USA. The land of the invisible dead.
Without a Universal Basic Income, All Americans become cold hearted, selfish, criminals.
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William Schaeffer
This guaranteed failure rate of humiliation and despair, is what capitalist economies use to motivate the rest of us to continue to work (so we can avoid a similar fate).
How moral, just, or fair, is ANY social system that plans on the fact that a small percentage of the population has to have a miserable, short life of despair, just to guarantee that the rest of us work and the very rich can continue to enjoy a pleasant lifestyle.
Can you imagine polite conversation with comfortable people humorously chatting about trivial matters while a person lays dying, and gasping for air, on the floor beside the table? Someone is dying and the party just continues as usual. Nobody even notices. That is what is happening in America. That is what is happening in Los Angeles.
While the wealthy elite celebrate their success in their Hollywood Hills mansions, their compatriots are sleeping in the rain and dying on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
Presently, there are 60,000 people living on the streets of Los Angeles. Nobody cares about these people. Nobody helps them. They are already dead and nobody cares. This IS America. This IS the USA. The land of the invisible dead.
Without a Universal Basic Income, All Americans become cold hearted, selfish, criminals.
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William Schaeffer
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Cell Phone Throwing
A new video art form:
Cell Phone Throwing
1. Put the phone in video record.
2. Throw the phone and see what it records
3. Practice putting a high arc on the trajectory
4. Add different types of wobble and rotation, or spin.
5. Pick a unique environment to capture with this new art form
6. Find a soft landing space for your phone
7. Good Luck
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William Schaeffer
Cell Phone Throwing
1. Put the phone in video record.
2. Throw the phone and see what it records
3. Practice putting a high arc on the trajectory
4. Add different types of wobble and rotation, or spin.
5. Pick a unique environment to capture with this new art form
6. Find a soft landing space for your phone
7. Good Luck
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William Schaeffer
Monday, March 16, 2020
Guardian Angels
Fairfax Ave. at Whitworth Dr.
Los Angeles, CA
November 2019
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William Schaeffer
Federal Government philosophy
I remember listening to a conservative politician extolling the virtues of a small federal government and the benefits of no government intervention. He apparently was not considering the effects of no government capacity to respond to a serious pandemic like Coronavirus. Think about it.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Sunday, March 15, 2020
We all owe 2019 an apology for what we said about it.
HAHAHA I was just thinking how special 2019 was. I almost missed the little things that I didn't appreciate at the time (and I just thought would last forever). Now they are gone... Meanwhile, I worried tremendously about trivial matters that were largely inconsequential. I had a beautiful pet bird that just died suddenly two weeks ago and I still miss her. I got fired or "let go" from four different jobs in the same year - a personal record. And now, I am officially retired.
Good Luck with coronavirus in 2020.
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William Schaeffer
Good Luck with coronavirus in 2020.
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William Schaeffer
Friday, March 13, 2020
Bubonic Plague and social change
It is instructive to remember that the Bubonic plague of the 1300's is partly responsible for the Protestant Reformation (and the Renaissance itself) because the Church (and other social institutions) proved to be absolutely ineffective at curing or preventing the plague.
Prior to that, the class structure of the middle ages was rigidly fixed. Such a great number of people died that things started to change. Prior to the plague, only "royalty" could wear linen (by legal edict), After the plague, there was so much extra linen clothing that peasants started wearing linen anyway. Modern medicine was started when people realized there was no way to combat or understand the plague. Entire towns were vacated and peasants left their landowners and moved into empty buildings or towns to start a new "free" life. The Church lost a lot of prestige because it was shown to be powerless to stop the death. The prayers of the Priests were absolutely ineffectual at stopping the plague.
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William Schaeffer
Prior to that, the class structure of the middle ages was rigidly fixed. Such a great number of people died that things started to change. Prior to the plague, only "royalty" could wear linen (by legal edict), After the plague, there was so much extra linen clothing that peasants started wearing linen anyway. Modern medicine was started when people realized there was no way to combat or understand the plague. Entire towns were vacated and peasants left their landowners and moved into empty buildings or towns to start a new "free" life. The Church lost a lot of prestige because it was shown to be powerless to stop the death. The prayers of the Priests were absolutely ineffectual at stopping the plague.
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William Schaeffer
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
comment on the lack of "Presidential" response to the Coronavirus threat:
One good way to solve the homeless problem AND the unemployment problem AND overcrowding in the jails is to subtly encourage them all to die of Coronavirus by publicly declaring it to be nothing to worry about. And then, plead ignorance after-the-fact while blaming the victims for practicing poor hygiene and bad judgement.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Monday, March 9, 2020
cloth face masks not necessary for well people
Comment on a Coronavirus article that says face masks are just for sick people and health professionals.
The face mask idea for "well people" actually makes sense. The number one thing you are not supposed to do is "touch your face." If you are normally healthy and not used to wearing a face mask, two scenarios are likely to occur: 1. you will constantly be adjusting the mask to "fit better" and in the process will touch your face many more times than normal, 2. You will be careless and not wear the mask tight fitting, or correctly, this "sloppy attitude" will result in an infected mask touching your face and rubbing germs on your face more frequently than if there was no mask at all, and 3. Your mask may give you a cavalier attitude and you forget other safety precautions.
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William Schaeffer
The face mask idea for "well people" actually makes sense. The number one thing you are not supposed to do is "touch your face." If you are normally healthy and not used to wearing a face mask, two scenarios are likely to occur: 1. you will constantly be adjusting the mask to "fit better" and in the process will touch your face many more times than normal, 2. You will be careless and not wear the mask tight fitting, or correctly, this "sloppy attitude" will result in an infected mask touching your face and rubbing germs on your face more frequently than if there was no mask at all, and 3. Your mask may give you a cavalier attitude and you forget other safety precautions.
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William Schaeffer
Sunday, March 1, 2020
VFX at the Oscars
Comment on a Linkedin post protesting the "VFX spot at the Oscars:
After working for ten years doing digital colorization, I got a job at Digital Domain in 1996 working as a paint roto artist on Titanic. For the next 20 years I worked on 40 feature films at various VFX houses. In 2008, the stock market crashed and VFX houses started outsourcing the paint and roto work to India and China. I was unemployed for two years. I finally started working other part time jobs. I lost my condo and my life savings. I worked elbow-to-elbow with over one thousand people during my tenure in VFX and remarkably almost none of those people are any sort of friend to me today. I can contact maybe five or ten former coworkers if I need to. Almost half of the people I worked with have left "the industry." To me the repetitive playing of this sanctimonious protest is sadly hilarious. There is no LOVE in VFX and nobody you work with even cares if you are dead or alive. Nothing has changed in the thirty years I have observed the industry and nothing will change in the future. Your "career" is only twenty years long and you will be replaced by eager and unfeeling new college graduates. You have been warned. Stop the "offended hypocritical pretense." Nobody cares.
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William Schaeffer
After working for ten years doing digital colorization, I got a job at Digital Domain in 1996 working as a paint roto artist on Titanic. For the next 20 years I worked on 40 feature films at various VFX houses. In 2008, the stock market crashed and VFX houses started outsourcing the paint and roto work to India and China. I was unemployed for two years. I finally started working other part time jobs. I lost my condo and my life savings. I worked elbow-to-elbow with over one thousand people during my tenure in VFX and remarkably almost none of those people are any sort of friend to me today. I can contact maybe five or ten former coworkers if I need to. Almost half of the people I worked with have left "the industry." To me the repetitive playing of this sanctimonious protest is sadly hilarious. There is no LOVE in VFX and nobody you work with even cares if you are dead or alive. Nothing has changed in the thirty years I have observed the industry and nothing will change in the future. Your "career" is only twenty years long and you will be replaced by eager and unfeeling new college graduates. You have been warned. Stop the "offended hypocritical pretense." Nobody cares.
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William Schaeffer
Coronavirus
Watch out for the Coronavirus.
Wash your hands and say your prayers.
HAHAHA "Good Luck"
Wash your hands and say your prayers.
HAHAHA "Good Luck"
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William Schaeffer
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